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Organisms≠Machines

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2013
The machine conception of the organism (MCO) is one of the most pervasive notions in modern biology. However, it has not yet received much attention by philosophers of biology. The MCO has its origins in Cartesian natural philosophy, and it is based on the metaphorical redescription of the organism as a machine.
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Machine against Machine

2006
As explained in the preceding chapter, Tutte invented a way of finding the settings of the Tunny’s chi-wheels, but the rub was that his method seemed impractical. It involved calculations which, if done by hand, would consume a vast amount of time—probably as much as several hundred years for a single, long message, Newman once estimated. The necessary
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Minding Machines/Machining Minds

2012
AbstractThis article attempts a switch in perspective. Instead of arranging modern and contemporary American poets in a forward-moving lineage or scanning such a lineage for generative breaks, it asks what poetries come into view if we look backward from the circuitries of twenty-first-century digital writing.
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Brain machines

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2010
This story is a Science fiction (SF) prototype and serves as an example application of the process of Science Fiction (SF) prototyping as a design tool. This story should be read in conjunction with Science Fiction for Scientists!! An Introduction to SF Prototypes and Brain Machines (also included with this edition).
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Euclid Machines

Studia Logica
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Wagner Sanz, Petrucio Viana
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Killing Machines

1993
Abstract The adoption of military metaphors by the medical profession is well known. Physicians aggressively combat disease on the front lines, using their armamentarium to destroy invaders of the body. The military also adopts medical metaphors, ranging from surgical strikes to antiseptic operations. Less commented on is the adoption of
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Medicine Machines

New England Journal of Medicine, 2023
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